Podyssey Picks
Podyssey Picks (Oct 31)
This week’s podcast picks features some great community recommendations, including how a butt dial sparked a billion dollar family feud, the two year fight over four homeless parking spots, and how SpaceX's Mars ambitions will threaten a small town’s wildlife.
mmLast Updated: Oct 29th, 2021
Best Episodes of the Week
1. How a butt dial sparked a billion dollar family feud.
The family behind the telecom giant Rogers Communications is in a bizarre public spat over control of the company. Today, CBC business reporter Pete Evans explains the unusual infighting.
2. A two year fight over four parking spots between America’s richest and poorest citizens.
Safe parking spots that offer overnight refuge for the unhoused population are gaining traction in the Bay Area, but political obstacles are obstructing community efforts. Chronicle reporter Lauren He...Show More
3. The arrival of SpaceX’s Mars ambitions in smalltown Boca Chica, Texas is a blow to its birds and wildlife.
What will SpaceX risk destroying on Earth in the quest to take humanity to Mars?
4. How a meeting between a young fan who broke rubella quarantine and his favorite Hollywood star ended in tragedy.
German measles is a minor illness for most people - but for unborn children it can be devastating. In 1943 - when the link was only just becoming clear - a young US marine decided to break rubella qua...Show More
5. A calm adult bedtime story about fall foraging.
Our story tonight is called Fall Foraging and it’s a story about the first signs of the changing seasons and foods that go along with them. It’s also about a tart lemony spice harvested from a plant g...Show More
6. The Ice Age wasn’t exceptional. Earth was actually covered in ice and snow three times over.
An Earth covered in ice might sound far-fetched, but there’s reason to think it has actually happened in the past – more than once. In this episode, we examine the Snowball Earth hypothesis and the ge...Show More
New & Notable Podcasts
Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure
Featured Episode: Coming Soon: The Sellout
White Hot Hate
Featured Episode: Introducing: White Hot Hate
For True Crime Lovers
Two white moms and their six Black kids drive off a California cliff. What the heck happened?
In March 2018, two white moms and their six black kids drive off a California cliff. What are they running from? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
A chilling tale of 200 miners who were killed in a tunnel and keep haunting it to this day.
Over 200 lives were lost during the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel in western Massachusetts. According to countless eye-witnesses across nearly 150 years, many of those deaths left indelible marks....Show More
Podcast Playlists
Halloween Spooktackular 2021
CBC Podcast Playlist’s annual Halloween Spooktackular playlist is full of podcasts that will keep you up at night.
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5 Conversations about Sex
A playlist of one of the topics that is both funny, embarrassing and sometimes a little bit hard to talk about: sex.
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Meet the Curators
Melody and Danny are the co-founders of Podyssey. Every week we curate this round-up with the mission of helping our readers find the hidden gems in the podcast world.
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